Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Taoki-Ho-Oi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of carpenters. One of the gods who built the beautiful sacred hall designed, in part, to lure the Sun goddess AMATERASU from the cave in which she hid herself.See also HIKO-SASHIRI-NO-KAMI.... |
God name "Taoki-Ho-Oi-No-Kami/ Hiko-Sashiri-No-Kami" | Japan / Shinto | The God of carpenters |
"Taphius" | Greek | A son of Poseidon and Hippothoe, was the father of Pterelaus. He led a colony to Taphos, and called the inhabitants Teleboans. Greek |
Spirit name "Tapio" | East | Forest spirit or god. Hunters prayed to him before a hunt. East Finnish |
God name "Tapio" | Finland | The god of the Forest. |
God name "Tapio" | Pre - Christian Finnish | Hunting god. Believed to inhabit Forests and invoked before a hunt.... |
Angel name "Tar" | Nazorean | One of the ten angels that accompany the Sun across the sky. Early Nazorean |
God name "Tar" | Tiv / Nigeria, West Africa | Chthonic earth god. Engendered by the creator god AONDO, Tar is depicted as a prostrate figure with his head toward the east, comparable with the Egyptian god GEB.... |
God name "Tar Tiv" | Nigeria | The chthonic earth god |
Goddess name "Tara" | Buddhist / Mayhayana / Vajrayana | A goddess, the epitaph of the mother of the Buddha[Maya] |
Goddess name "Tara" | Hindu | Goddess of the stars. Hindu |
God name "Tara" | Vedic | Soma, the moon, carried Tara off with him, which brought about the great war in heaven between the gods and the asuras. Brahma put an end to the war and had Tara restored to Brihaspati. |
Goddess name "Tara (power of hunger)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | (1) Goddess. May originally have had astral connotations, since the word can be interpreted as star. One of a group of MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of SI IVA. She may also be the consort of CANDRA (SOMA). Aspects include Krodharatri. Attributes: knife, skin, skull, snakes and sword. Three-eyed.(2) Goddess. Buddhist (Mahayana and Vajrayana). An epithet of the mother of the BUDDHA, Maya. Also one of a series of female deities, the DHYANIBUDDHASAKTI considered to be aspects of the Sakti of AVALOKITESVARA or of AMOGASHIDDHI. She may also be the Sakti of ADIBIDDHA and of the various DHYANIBUDDHAS, in which case she is characterized by their colors. These Taras thus become White Tara and so on.See also BHRKUTI, EKAJATA, KURUKULLA, SITATARA and SYAMATARA. In Tibetan Buddhism she is known as sGrol-ma.... |
Demon name "Taraka" | India | Giant-demon who had obtained all the Divine knowledge of yoga-vidya and occult powers. India |
God name "Tarakajit" | Hindu | Conqueror of Taraka and the Hindu god of war. |
Goddess name "Taranga" | Polynesian | Polynesian fertility goddess. |
God name "Taranis" | Celtic | The god of thunder worshipped in Gaul and Britain. Celtic |
God name "Taranis" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Thunder god. Known only from limited inscriptions, but may emulate the Germanic god DONAR and is possibly the same as Taranucos. The Romans equated him with JUPITER and a Jupiter Tanarus inscription at Chester in England may refer to Taranis. His symbol is a spoked wheel and he is presumed to be the object of savage rites. The modern Breton word for thunder is taran. Also Taranos.... |